View this email in your browser Air Bubbles The Newsletter of the North Shore Frogmen’s Club January 2016 Volume 58, Number 1 In this Issue: Upcoming Events Member's Corner Message from the President Letter from the Editor Fun stuff we did last month Call for Video Photo Contest winners Meeting Summaries Meeting Summaries NSF is Supported by Upcoming Events Calendar view and details on website here Sunday Dives - Dive with a buddy! Meet every Sunday at 9:30AM at Burger King on Rte 128 in Beverly.
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Air BubblesThe Newsletter of the North Shore Frogmen’s Club
January 2016
Volume 58, Number 1
In this Issue:
Upcoming Events
Member's Corner
Message from the President
Letter from the Editor
Fun stuff we did last month
Call for Video
Photo Contest winners
Meeting Summaries
Meeting Summaries
NSF is Supported by
Upcoming EventsCalendar view and details on website here
Sunday Dives - Dive with a buddy!Meet every Sunday at 9:30AM at Burger King on Rte 128 in Beverly.
Meetings:Usually Thursdays at
Palmer’s Cove Yacht Club
74 Leavitt Street
Salem, MA 01970
Meetings start at 8PM; Social gathering at 7:30. See website or upcoming events section of this
newsletter for presentation and meeting topics.
Upcoming special events:See Calendar for details on all these events
Jan 1 - Dive and PartyThe dive this year will be at 10:30 Fort Sewell in Marblehead. In addition to the park parking, we can
park across the street at the office park at 8 Doakes Lane. Please be discreet when changing.
Join the party at noon at Mike and Ellen Garvey's at 85 Monument Ave in Swampscott. Park on the
street or the LEFT side of the driveway and come to the back door. Ellen's making lobster bisque; it
would be great if you could bring food and/or drink to share.
Sunday Jan 10 - Plan the Year!We'll be meeting to plan the calendar of events for the year for the North Shore Frogmen. This is
open to all members and has proven to be a fun and fruitful meeting. It's a great opportunity for all
members to participate in the club and define what we'll be doing - or thinking of doing. And it includes
lunch!
The meeting will be at noon at Mike and Ellen Garvey's - 85 Monument Ave, Swampscott.
781-595-4978. Park on the street or on the LEFT side of the driveway. We'll provide a hearty soup; if
you want to bring something to supplement (food, drink to share) that would be great.
Put on your thinking caps!
Thursday Jan 21 - Little Cayman PresentationJim D'Urso will be presenting photos and videos from his recent trip to Little Cayman Islands with
Undersea Divers, including a side trip to wrecks off Cayman Brac.
Presentation will be around 8:30 after the regular meeting.
Saturday, Jan 23 Danversport MarinaNSF will have a booth at the Danversport Marina event 9-12
Stay tuned for more info!
Save the Dates!
Thu Feb 11: Discussion on Safer Dive Profiles by Alex Dulavitz
Mar 4-6: Sea Rovers. We'll have a booth. Tickets to the event are on sale now: bostonsearovers.com
Thu Apr 28: Presentation by Matt from Division of Fisheries
Member's Corner
Diver of the MonthJim BarbaraFor his perseverance on Sunday diving.
Look at the new drysuit!!!!
We're going to miss the red "rescue diver"
suit...
Member of the Month
Cheryl MooreFor these fantastic table centerpieces she
created for the holiday party. See below for a
picture of Cheryl in the "Member Spotlight"
Member Spotlight
by Bruce Moore
Cheryl Moore
Cheryl is a relatively new diver. She was certified in 2013 in the warm waters of the Florida Keys and the
springs of Northern Florida.
She was born in Portland, Maine, grew up in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine and now resides in
Amesbury, Mass. She has 3 adult children and 7 grandchildren.
She is married to Bruce Moore, also a NSF Member. As a native New Englander she has a love of the
ocean, the beach, and anything water related. While she prefers the warm water dive sites and reefs of Key
West, FL, the Blue Heron Bridge, and the waters off West Palm, Beach, Florida she also loves to dive Folly
Cove and Back Beach. Cheryl has also enjoyed freshwater dives at Lake Winnipesaukee, NH, Rainbow
Springs, FL and the famous Devils Den.
Out with the Old
Thank you to our 2015 OfficersJim Barbara, President
John Sears, VP 1st part of year, Ray Porter for 2nd part
Adam Hartnett, Treasurer
Jim D'Urso, Secretary
In with the NewWelcome our 2016 OfficersJim D'Urso, President
John Ferrier, VP
Adam Hartnett, Treasurer
Vinny Egisi, Secretary
Speaking of OldWe'd like to recognize 3 people who became Life Members in 2015
Graham Smith
Mary Howard
John Sears
New Life MembersCongratulations are in order for 2 new life members this year;
Jim Follis
Ralph Arabian
CondolencesLife Member Jerry Sutherland's son David passed away on Dec 3 in a fishing accident.
Art Channell UpdateIn November, Art fell and broke his hip. He is in rehab at Essex Park Rehab (265 Essex St near the Beverly
YMCA). Art is progressing well with physical therapy and enjoys visitors; stop by to see him (Room 244).
Message from the
President
Jim D'Urso
“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.”-Jacques Yves Cousteau
Thank you membership for giving me the opportunity to serve as President for this coming year. I have been
diving for over 40 years and logged over 1000 dives, including 25 in the past month,and appreciate the
privilege of being able to enjoy the ocean both beneath and above the water. My advice to our members is to
keep diving as long as you are able and if you can't then at least come to our meetings and enjoy the dive
stories and presentations.
I am always amazed of how many new and fascinating things there are to be discovered in the ocean. Many
‘firsts’ this year for me include experiencing a pod of spinner dolphins 30 miles offshore at Tilles, more deeper
penetrations of wrecks and reefs, digging up a large surf clam totally engulfed by a moon snail and its baby,
finding an ancient fluke anchor, uncovering a brass ship’s compass, bumped by a large tarpon going after
small fish in my video lights on a night dive, filming coral eating blood worms on a night shore dive, observing
a rainbow parrot asleep on a reef with a large remora attached to its dorsal edge, in the water with a Monk
seal off of Madiera, and last Sunday on a dive with outgoing President Jim Barbara, found the largest oysters
I have ever seen - over 8 inches long - in Salem Harbor.
Sunday shore dives can be challenging with tide changes, wind, waves, cold weather, but one person who
has persevered in his Sunday shore dives is Jim Barbara. In fact, he has made every Sunday dive in
December and has been the only one on some of them; for these reasons I have selected Jim as Diver of the
Month. Thank you Jim for your example, I hope to join you on many Sunday dives this winter.
For Member of the Month I have selected Cheryl Moore. This year when we were scrambling to complete
banquet preparations, she volunteered to create centerpieces on a very minimal budget. The product, with an
ocean theme designed and put together by Cheryl, was a nice accent to our Annual Banquet. Thank you
Cheryl for your club support.
My goals for NSF this year include increasing membership, closer ties with Undersea Divers, more beach
barbecues, more social events, and more dive talk and presentations at meetings. I would like to see
members assist the BayState Council in their quest this year to improve public access of all beaches in the
state. Keep diving, there is a lot to experience in and on the ocean.Thank you again for this opportunity.
Your President for 2016
Jim D’Urso
Letter from the EditorEllen Garvey
Happy New Year! I hope to see you all on New Years Day.
I usually have an "interesting articles" segment to Air Bubbles but I'm
wimping out this month - busy making lobsta' bisque for the party. I have
an idea - would somebody else like to take this one segment of Air
Bubbles on. Could be fun, right?
Another place I'm wimping out for this issue is the lack of pictures for the
banquet and the pizza part/yankee swap! I'll see if I can't scare them up
for next month's issue.
If you would like a copy of the "NSF Year In Review 2015" Video which
was shown at the banquet please contact me by Jan 5 if you haven't
already put your order in. Let me know whether you want a regular DVD
or a Blu-Ray. The DVDs are in production now.
The video includes all the pictures from the 2015 Air Bubbles, the photo
and video contest entries, and Daryl's video of the Coast Guard Demo
event.
Fun stuff we did last month
Annual Banquet Dec 5Many thanks to all who put this together, and to the generous donors for our great prizes:
Grand Prizes:
Scubapro donated a Chromis Computer - won by Adam Hartnett
Undersea Divers donated a Wetsuit won by John Sears
Backscatter donated a Flip 3.1 Filters for Go Pro won by Bill Werner
Other prizes and donors included:
Newleaf gift basket via Vange Egisi - Ron Blais
Hartnett car wash donated by Adam- Jim D'Urso
Osborn Tavern gift cert - John Ferrier
Lowell Repertory Theater - Tony V
Indian Food - Meg
Jillians - Tony V
Wallet - Jack
Mesh Bag - Ray
Amaretto - Bruce/Cheryl
Wine - Ray
Guavaberry Rum donated by Adam - Mike Dennealer
A good time was had by all
Dec 17 Pizza Party/Yankee Swap
Who has some pictures from these events? I'll grab some from Facebook - any others?
PresidentialSunday Dive12/27
Jim D'Urso and Jim Barbara
diving
with Adam Hartnett, Vinny Egisi
and Tony Viera providing shore
support.
Call for VideoSalem Sound Coastwatch has a video project in the works with Paul Van Ness (artist & owner of
CinemaSalem) -- A series of 10 HD Videos: short (under 3 minutes), provocative, probably some will be
sophisticated and will need a teacher discussion guide to prep viewing to set the context. Series creates an
emotional arc that educates, motivates, creates stewards (you love it; you care for it) and a call to action -
stewardship. Target audiences are: any adult; high school environmental science and marine biology; middle
school science.
Right now we are looking for short clips of HD video:
footage of school of a coldwater fish – could be cod, pollock, mendaden, striped bass
footage of longfin squid
footage of northern shrimp
Also, one video will be on Biodiversity of the Ocean - that the Ocean is not empty, but full of amazing
creatures. So we are looking for underwater video showing the smallest to the largest animals; under the
dock, on the bottom, swimming in the water column, floating near the surface.
